Holiness and Healing

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Holiness and Healing 19th century revivalists
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Teachings that influenced the early Pentecostal
Movement.

• Holiness
• Double Cure Second Blessing (Entire
  Sanctification)
• Holiness Camp Meetings
• Healing
• Healing Evangelists
• Alexander Dowie (1847-1907)
• Prophetic (End time outpouring of the Holy
  Spirit)
• Charles Parham (1873-1929)
• Welsh Revival 1904

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• A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
• Wesley influenced by Moravians (Spoke with Arvid
  Gradin at Herrnhut in 1738)
• 'The desire for pure love alone to dwell in the
  heart.'
• Justification by faith grace alone
• Sanctification deliverance from sin leading to
  second experience of entire sanctification.
• Christian perfection usually happened at time of
  death but could happen before
• Wesleyan Holiness
• Holiness movement
• Camp Meetings
• Second blessing of entire sactification.
• Became associated with the Holy Spirit baptism.
• Charles Finney (1792-1875) Oberlin Theology

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Healing George Fox (1624-1691) Founder of the
Society of Friends(Quakers). Prayed for the
sick by the laying on hands. He preached that
healing was under the sovereignty of God. If
people were not healed it was not regarded to be
due to 'lack of faith'. Fox's Journal records
many healings.
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George Fox Journal 1672 New Jersey And so we
came to Shrewsbury . . . and there a friend (John
Jay) that was with me went to try a horse and got
on his back and the horse ran and cast him on his
head and broke his neck as they call it, and the
people took him up dead and carried him a good
way and laid him on a tree, and I came to him and
felt on him and saw that he was dead, and as I
was pitying his family and him I took him by the
hair of the head, and his head turned like a
cloth it was so loose, and I threw away my stick
and gloves and took his head in both my hands,
and set my knees against the tree and raised his
head and I did perceive it was not broken out
that ways, and I put my hand under his chin, and
behind his head, and raised his head 2 or 3 times
with all my strength and brought it in, and I did
perceive his neck began to be stiff, and then he
began to rattle, and after to breathe, and the
people were amazed, and I bid them have a good
heart, and carry him into the house, and then
they set him by the fire, and I bid them get him
some warm thing and get him to bed and after he
had been in the house awhile he began to speak
and did not know where he had been and the next
day we passed and he with us pretty well, about
16 miles to a meeting at Middletown.
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Edward Irving (1792-1834) Minister of the
National Scottish Church in Regent Square,
London. Believed pastors should preach healing.
Irving maintained that all healing is from God
and encouraged both prayer and medical
assistance. Irving had a great influence upon
Alexander Dowie.
March 28th 1830 Mary Campbell began to speak in
other tongues and claimed she was divinely
healed. October 30th 1831 her sister, Mrs.
Cardale also began to speak in tongues and to
prophesy.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) Charles
Haddon Spurgeon prayed for the sick and preached
on divine healing at Metropolitan Tabernacle but
his healing ministry was primarily through
pastoral visitation. Parishioners requested
prayer for healing with great results. It is
stated thousands of people were healed. There are
many testimonies of divine healing through the
ministry of Spurgeon.
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• Cane Ridge Camp Meeting, Kentucky. 1801
• (The Birth of the Holiness Camp Meetings)
• Barton Stone (1772-1844)
• 20,000-30,000 people attended
• Falling to the ground,
• Crying aloud in prayer and song,
• Later Camp Meetings
• Having the jerks
• Speaking in tongues

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Ethan Otis Allen (1813-1902) First American to
have a full time healing ministry Born August 25,
1813 Called the father of the divine healing
movement. First member of the American Healing
Movement to associate Christian perfection with
divine healing (1846). Allen believed the
atonement provided Justification Purification
of the human nature from sin. Divine health
(sickness caused by sin, entire sanctification
removed sin and eliminated sickness). Allen
testified to being healed of TB by the prayer of
faith in 1846. He prayed for the sick and
ministered for 50 years around New England.
Published his book Faith healing (1881)
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Charles Cullis (1833-1892) Medical doctor. Most
important figure in introducing divine healing
into the American Church. 1862 Received Christ at
a Phoebe Palmer Holiness meeting in New York
City. Cullis founded a publishing firm.
Published a book of hymns (Faith hymns, 1870).
After reading 'The Life of Dorothea Trudel'
(1869), Cullis came to believe that healing in
answer to the prayer of Faith was a permanent
privilege for the people of God. Published book
on healing in 'Faith Cures' (1879). Published -
Consumptives Home Report (yearly) Report of Gods
work in the home for consumptives. Times of
Refreshing (monthly). He had to trust the Lord as
funds were often low. He was instrumental in
convincing prominent holiness leaders that Full
Salvation included physical healing. Those
leaders included W E Boardman author of 'The
Higher Life' (1858) and A B Simpson (Founder
CMA) January 1870 Lucy Drake (b.1844) was
healed through Cullis of a brain tumour. Began
annual convention meetings in Framington,
Massachusetts, and at Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
Large crowds attended
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R. Kelso Carter (1849-1928) Committed life to
Christ at 15 years of age. Received healing when
prayed for by Charles Cullis. Wrote Miracles of
healing (1880) Wrote the book 'The atonement of
sin and sickness or a full salvation for soul
and body' (1884). Carter stated that the
Atonement provided the same total healing for the
body as it did for the soul. He held that
healing was in the Atonement and both sin and
sickness were taken on the cross. His teaching
initially disregarded the sovereignty of God and
medical cures. But he modified his beliefs later
and became a doctor. Wrote the hymn Standing on
the promises (1886) 1887 Suffered a
breakdown 1888 Malarial fever. 1890 Took
medication and got better. 1897 Wrote Faith
Healing Reviewed after 20 years
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Andrew Murray (1828-1917) Andrew Murray was
healed in 1882 of a throat problem that had left
him unable to preach for two years. Pastor
Stockmayer convinced Andrew Murray that James
513-14 meant sickness was healed by the prayer
of faith. He stayed at Bethshan for three weeks
and was completely healed. Murray wrote the book
'Divine Healing' systematizing the biblical
foundation for divine healing. He laid out rules
for receiving healing. According to
Murray 1.      Sickness is chastisement for
sin 2.      It is God's will to heal. 3.      By
an act of faith a believer must accept Jesus as
healer and physician
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A.B.Simpson (1843-1919) founder of the Christian
and Missionary Alliance.
1888 Simpson wrote 'The Gospel of Healing in
which he claimed healing to be a redemption
right. In 1890 Simpson wrote the book 'The
Fourfold Gospel. He taught the Fourfold message
of the Gospel as Jesus Christ Saviour
Sanctifier Healer Coming King.
Simpson did not believe the Wesleyan doctrine of
Christian perfection. He held that
sanctification was a process that continued
throughout the believers life. This was the
view taught by the Keswick Convention in England
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• A B Simpson (1843-1919)
• Simpson believed healing was a 'redemption right'
  through the atonement.
• 'Thus our healing becomes a great redemption
  right, which we simply claim as our purchased
  inheritance through the blood of His Cross' (The
  Gospel of Healing', 1915, p.32).
• Simpson maintained that salvation and the baptism
  with the Holy Spirit were two distinct
  experiences.
• Influenced by W.E.Boardman's 'The Higher Life'
  (1858)
• Simpson baptised with the Holy Spirit in 1874
• Called the baptism 'second blessing', 'crisis
  sanctification', 'the anointing', 'the sealing',
  'receiving the Holy Spirit', 'the Fullness of the
  Spirit', and the 'indwelling of Christ'.
• Revivalist preacher - Holiness prophet of the
  'deeper' or 'higher' Christian life.
• Promoter of World Missions

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A B Simpson and Restorationist theology Simpson
believed God had been restoring the Church since
the Reformation. Justification - Sanctification
- Healing Ministry (Missions) - End time
outpouring of the Holy Spirit - Second Coming of
Christ Simpson believed that the end time
outpouring of the Holy Spirit would be
accompanied by supernatural manifestations of the
Spirit. Simpson was not opposed to the
Pentecostal movement provided he could see
spiritual fruit and stable leadership, but he
criticised it at the Alliance General Council in
1908.    
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A B.Simpson and the doctrine of the initial
evidence. Simpson was not opposed to deriving
doctrinal truth from the book of Acts. He held
that the Baptism with the Spirit was a second
blessing on the basis of Acts 8 (Samaritans) and
Acts 19 (Ephesians). He did not uphold that
tongues were 'the initial evidence of the
Baptism with the Holy Spirit. He saw this
doctrine as emphasising 'spiritual
manifestations' instead of 'cultivating a
devotion to God' and reducing the zeal for
evangelism. He rejected the idea held by some
that tongues would be given to missionaries to
preach in foreign lands making language study
unnecessary. Missionary funds in the Alliance had
been reduced because of the division caused in
Alliance branches by Pentecostals. He held that
prophetic utterances by pentecostals resembled
'spiritualism' and 'the Romish confessional'.
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Keswick Convention Founded by Vicar
Harford-Battersby Second blessing
(Sanctification) Baptism with the Holy
Spirit Monthly paper Christian Pathway to
Power. Spread the Keswick teachings. Holiness
leaders associated the Baptism with the Holy
Spirit and holiness. Teaching Andrew Murray F B
Meyer
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Mary Woodworth-Etter (1844 1924) Holiness
Pentecostal preacher
Winnebrenner Churches of God (1884 1904)
Healing meetings drew huge crowds Slain in the
Spirit Large numbers converted in
meetings. Prophesied in meetings She would go
into a trance Stand for long periods of time with
hands raised. Wrongly prophesied that an
earthquake and Tidal wave would hit San Francisco
in 1890. Became widely known as a Pentecostal
evangelist in 1912 (July December) when she
conducted crusade meetings at the church of F F
Bosworth in Dallas
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Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844 1924) Holiness
Pentecostal preacher
Winnebrenner Churches of God (1884 1904)
Healing meetings drew huge crowds Slain in the
Spirit Large numbers converted in
meetings. Prophesied in meetings She would go
into a trance Stand for long periods of time with
hands raised. Wrongly prophesied that an
earthquake and Tidal wave would hit San Francisco
in 1890. Became widely known as a Pentecostal
evangelist in 1912 (July December) when she
conducted crusade meetings at the church of F F
Bosworth in Dallas
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Maria Woodworth-Etter preaching
The finger on her right hand points to heaven The
Bible is in her left hand and her finger on her
left points to Hell
Often preached dressed in white clothes with one
hand lifted towards heaven and one hand behind
pointing down to Hell.
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Etter Tabernacle, Indianapolis, Indiana Maria
Woodworth Etter built this church in 1918. Church
opening dedication took place on May 19,
1918 Seated 500 people
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Tent Ministry Maria Woodworth-Etter ministered in
large tents. They were always filled with people.
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Restorationism Imputed righteousness
Reformation (16th century) Sanctification
Puritan teaching (17th century) Evangelical
Awakening (18th century) Holiness movement
(19th century) Healing Healing Evangelists
(late 19th century) End time outpouring
Pentecostal Movement (20th century) Second Coming
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John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907)
Began itinerant ministry in USA
(1888) Established base in Evanston, Illinois
(1890) Ministry grew after holding meetings near
Chicago World's Fair (1893) and many people
testified of healings.
Published Leaves of Healing Opened a healing
home in Chicago and conducted services in Zion
Tabernacle. Extremely outspoken and critical of
other healing ministries.
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1895 Founded Christian Catholic Church 1900
Founded Zion City, Illinois 6,500 acres on Lake
Michigan
Shiloh Tabernacle in Zion City seated nearly 8,000
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John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907)
His Restorationist views led him to make extreme
claims. In 1901 he claimed to be the Elijah who
should come to restore the Church. In 1904 he
claimed to be the first Apostle of the restored
church of the end times.
Restorationism Call for a return to New Testament
Christianity. The Apostolic Faith 'once
delivered' Jude 3. Expectation of a 'latter
rain' outpouring.
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John Alexander Dowie Message preached at Zion
City. Zion City is free from the presence of
fallen women and houses of fame which are the
very gates of hell leading down to death. Zion
City is free from secret blotches and many other
evil things that cursed the cities of all
lands. God is raising up Zion City as a dwelling
place for his people where we may educate a royal
generation from the infant school to the
University. Tens and tens of thousands will God
willing be sent forth from Zion City as
Deacons, Deaconesses, Evangelists, Elders and
Overseers of the Christian Catholic Church in
Zion into all the world.
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We pray that this Zion City will be the first of
many in every continent. We pray that the ancient
hill of Zion at Jerusalem will soon be in the
hands of Gods people and prepared rapidly as the
metropolis of the whole world. The city of the
great King made ready for His coming. These
things are not only possible and probable but
they are as sure and certain as the word of
prophesy which foretells them in the latter days.
Again with God given authority I say to you my
brothers and sisters beware lest the enemy
weaken your faith in the coming of Zions King.
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Prepare for that coming let your lamp be trimmed
and burning and see that you have oil in your
vessels with your lamps. Sleep not nor slumber
but hear the voice from Zion which is crying
Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory
of Jehovah has risen upon you. You may feel
that you are but few in number but I beseech you
to read together the glorious 60th chapter of the
book of the prophet Isaiah from which my last
words were taken. Consider these closing
words
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1905 Zion City had over 6000 residents. September
1905 Dowie had a stroke 1906 Financial
mismanagement caused Dowie to lose control of
Zion City. 1907 He died disgraced and
ignored.
1937 A fire destroyed Shiloh Temple in Zion City
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Frank W Sandford (1862-1948) Founded Shiloh on a
hilltop in Durham, Maine. 600 residents who
gave all they had were living at Shiloh by 1904.
Shiloh was run by Sandford whose
authoritarianism and strong discipline brought it
into disrepute. Frank Sandford was eventually
charged with manslaughter following the deaths of
some of his followers on his mission ship the
Coronet.
Frank Bartleman considered Sandford and Dowie to
be spiritual charlatan's (a person falsely
claiming a particular knowledge or skill) who
'severely abused and fleeced the flock of God'.
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John Graham Lake (1870-1935) 1898 Wife healed of
TB through the ministry of John Dowie Became an
elder at Dowies Zion City Left Zion City and
worked in business during the day and held
meetings at night. 1907 Baptised with the Holy
Spirit 1908 Went as missionary to South
Africa Lived by faith but suffered hardship as
local people thought they were prosperous
Americans. Wife died in Africa (her death may
have been caused by Malnutrition) John G Lake
continued in Africa till 1913
John G Lake in 1908
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John Graham Lake (1870-1935) 1913 Married second
time to Florence Switzer settled in Spokane,
Washington. 1913 1920 Held healing
crusades 1920 Moved to Portland, Oregon. Wanted
to start a chain of healing institutions in the
US. Died in 1935 of a stroke.
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F F Bosworth (1877 - 1958) Lived at Dowies Zion
City Became the director of the band at Zion
City September 1906 Heard Charles Parham preach
at Zion City on the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
Both F F Bosworth and his wife Marie Burgess were
baptised that evening. 1910 Pastored in Dallas.
1912 Maria Woodward-Etter held crusade meetings
in a tent on the church land. F F Bosworth faced
persecution for his racially integrated meetings
and asociation with blacks. 1914 Leader with the
Assemblies of God. Moved away from doctrine of
the initial evidence. 1918 Left Assemblies of
God joined Christian Missionary Alliance.
Held healing crusades in many cities with his
brother and their wives. Wrote the book Christ
the healer.
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F F Bosworth (1877 - 1958) 1948-50 Joined William
Branham to hold campaigns. Went to Africa for
last six years of his life.